Improved harness-hames



i UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICEO JOHN E. BROWN, OF LANSINGBUBG, NEV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, CHAS. A. MOTT, AND A. A. PEEBLES, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVED HARNESS-HAMES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 51,256, dated November 28, 1865.

To all rwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN E.BROWN,of Lansingbnrg, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented a new and useful linproveinentin H arness-Hanies; and l do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, an d exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a Vertical longitudinal section of a portion of the haines through theline xx, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a side View of a portion of the haines. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the haines through tlieline y y, Fig. l. Fig. 4C is a cross-section through the line fw fw, Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of my invention is to render harness-haines readily adjustable to the size of the necks of the different horses upon which they may be placed; and it consists in combining with the haines an adjustable spring-rein and upper haine-strap ring, constructed andarranged as hereinafter more fully described.

A is the wooden part of the haines, which is inade in the ordinary way, except that it is channeled on the side next to vvthe iron strengthening-strap B.

The rein-ring O and the ring D for the upper haine-strap is made in one piece, so that to whatever horse the haines are adjusted the rein-ring will always be in its proper position, being always in a line with the upper hannestra-p, which cannot be the case when the reinring is iininovably attached to the haines in the ordinary manner.

The strap B is channeled directly over the channel E in the wooden part of the haines, as represented in Fig. 2; but the channel or slot F is narrower than the channel E. The

slot F is notched at regular distances, as represented.

lo the bottom of the plate G of the rein-I ring O is attached a spring, H. The lower-end of the spring H is free, is turned up and proA jectsthrough the slot F, as represented in Fig. l. The spring H is of such a width as to work freely in the channel E and notches I; but the projecting end J of the spring is mafie narrower, so as to work in the slot F, the shoulders of the turned-up end of the spring at the same time sliding along the under side of the strap B.

By this improvement the haines can in an instant be adjusted to the size of the neck ot' any horse by simply pressing` upon the piojectin;r end Jof the spring H until the shoulders formed on the turned-up end of the said spring be pushed below the inner surface of the strap B, when the part O D Gr may be .raised or lowered as required, the elasticity of the spring H forcing the end of the spring up into the notches I and holding said part in position until again released by pressing upon the projection J.

l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- Adjustable harness-haines formed by co1nbining the movable part O D Gr and spring H J with the haines, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN E. BROWN.

/Vituesses:

EUGENE HYATT, WM. J As. BowDoN. 

